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By Geert Lovink, May 6, 2024
—Call for Contributions— Edited by Nathalie Casemajor in collaboration with Erik Bordeleau https://espaceartactuel.com/en/call/ In 2023 the Centre Pompidou acquired a group of works dealing with the relations between blockchain and artistic creation. Most of the works consist of Net Art, which relies on internet connectivity protocols. Curators Marcella Lista and Philippe Bettinelli situate them within [...]
By Geert Lovink, April 30, 2024
‘Dubai’s Fyre Festival’: Crypto investors caught in chaotic UAE floods https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/dubai-fyre-festival-crypto-investors-chaotic-floods Molly White (x2) on Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentence, 25 years in jail https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2024/mar/28/sam-bankman-fried-prison-crypto-regulation https://www.citationneeded.news/sam-bankman-fried-sentenced/ On the Brink of a Dramatic Change: The Digitalization of Money https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/on-the-brink-of-a-dramatic-change-the-digitalization-of-money Stuart Kells: Alice™ – The biggest untold story in the history of money (via Patrice Riemens) https://www.mup.com.au/books/alice-electronic-book-text Introducing Composer, [...]
By Gianmarco Cristofari, April 10, 2024
Few people know the fun fact about Satoshi Nakamoto’s name, the mysterious collective behind the founding father of crypto. In his conversation with Craig Steven Wright, Andrew O’Hagan explains that Nakamoto was a eighteenth-century Japanese iconoclast who criticized all the beliefs of his time. As for Satoshi, ‘It means “ash”,’ he said. ‘The philosophy of [...]